Lin Mo, a lowly servant of the Qingyun Sect, spends every day carrying water and chopping wood, enduring beatings and abuse, with a life worth less than a blade of grass.
Then a dead soul enters his body, calling itself Cang Lao. It died at the hands of a fellow disciple, but before its death, it fought desperately to protect a volume of the Devouring Annihilation Scripture. Lin Mo acknowledges it as his master with a drop of blood. Overnight, he opens his martial veins and forms a river of consciousness, advancing from an ordinary person to the Aperture-Sealing Realm.
He kills the cruel servant who tormented him and meets Yun Sheng, the eldest daughter of the Yun family, in a land of death. With a single needle, he saves Yun Lingxiao, a master of the Body Tempering Realm, and gains a powerful backer. He devours soul poison to break through to the Aperture-Opening Realm. His three rivers of consciousness far surpass those of ordinary people, and he withstands thirty-eight punches from Hao Chen before knocking him off the life-and-death platform with a single blow.
But trouble soon follows. Hao Chen’s father, Hao Tianxing, hates him to the core. Cangxuan, sect leader of the Xuanshan Sect, personally appears and uses his Step-Treading Realm might to force Lin Mo to accept a challenge at the sect competition three months later. More deadly still, Cangxuan once ambushed Cang Lao from behind to seize the Devouring Annihilation Scripture. What he truly wants is the manual Lin Mo possesses, and Lin Mo’s life.
At Soulbreak Cliff, a protector of the Demonic Spirit Sect knocks Hao Chen flying with one palm, then uses Lin Mo’s identity as bait to force him to hand over the Devouring Annihilation Scripture. A jade slip engraved with the character “Lin,” a hazy figure standing in wind and snow while holding a baby, and the words, “Don’t let Cangxuan find him.” Lin Mo’s origins are inextricably linked to Cangxuan.
Three months: Step-Treading Realm against Aperture-Opening Realm, a gap as vast as a chasm. Lin Mo leaves the Qingyun Sect with Yun Sheng and heads to the Jiuxiao Sect to study thunder techniques. After tempering his body in the Thunder Pool and fusing the Devouring Art with thunder techniques, he breaks through to the Body-Refining Realm. Cangxuan’s informants are exposed, bringing even worse news: the Demonic Spirit Sect has already set an ambush outside the Qingyun Sect, waiting for him to return.
“People say that no one can break through the Myriad Slaughter Realm.”
